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Subconscious Terrain // Tracy Peters

Exhibition Dates: May 7 – June 11, 2021

Virtual artist talk: Saturday May 22, 2pm CDT

Exhibition text by KC Adams (to come)

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Martha Street Studio is pleased to present Subconscious Terrain, a solo exhibition by Tracy Peters (MB).

Subconscious Terrain invites visitors into a metaphorical bog of moss images that situates them between a resting ground and a place of unrest. Immersive photo-based installations illuminate Sphagnum moss within physical and imaginative space, intersecting human and non-human ecosystems. This exhibition is a meditation on the life and death of Sphagnum habitats and their capacity for resuscitation and preservation. The delicate prints that inhabit the gallery embody the fragility of threatened bog environments, while attempting to elevate the vitality of peatlands as mitigators of global warming and climate change.

Tracy Peters is a multidisciplinary artist based in Winnipeg on Treaty 1 Territory. Her work examines the entanglements of human and non-human processes in response to eroding landscapes and environmental/climate crises. Peters has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council, and the Winnipeg Arts Council. She has attended residencies which include a partnership between Void Gallery and The Social Studios and Gallery in Derry, Northern Ireland; the ArtCenter/South Florida-MAWA artist exchange program in Miami, Florida; the Plug In ICA Summer Institute in Winnipeg, Manitoba; the Independent Imaging Retreat (Film Farm) in Mount Forest, Ontario; and The Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada. Her work has exhibited across Canada, in Europe and Australia.

The artist would like to thank the Manitoba Arts Council for their generosity in supporting this project, the University of Manitoba WIN Herbarium, and biologist Dr. Carla Zelmer.

Connect with Peters online at www.tracypeters.ca and on Instagram @tracy_a_peters.

What's On / What's Next
Subconscious Terrain // Tracy Peters April 17, 2021
This is a narrow, landscape orientation image. On the left half is a photograph of a grassy field, and a light blue sky with some wispy clouds. The sky takes up most of the image. A rectangle is embroidered in the centre. On the right half is black text over a light blue background. The text reads: "On this spot in 1645, the second week of Summer, 14-year old Oosawa Kakaike innini lost his quill quiver tie. Shortly after, he was injured in his first buffalo hunt. Suffering a pulled Achilles heel, he was forces to stay at the camp for the remainder of the summer. In 2004, on March 21st, Cody Fleury sustained a rather nasty infection after cutting his hand fencing this section. The scar is still visible." Virtual Artist Talk: Scott Benesiinaabandan March 3, 2021
Still image from a video work by April Dean. In this still, a print of a black and white image has colourful paint streaked in thin lines horizontally across it. The paint is in all the colours of the rainbow. The image is a plant cutting floating in a glass jar with water. Futures Barren/Futures Abundant // April Dean February 18, 2021
Martha Street Studio Relief Effort – Print Exchange January 28, 2021
Image of the artists' installation titled "Retrograde." The installation consists of etchings, bacterial culture, Petri dishes, and mixed media. Inversion // Jill Ho-You December 17, 2020
MSS is closed until July 1, 2020. Martha Street Studio response to COVID-19 March 18, 2020